The Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan where Jeffrey Epstein is being held while awaiting a decision on his bail request, which will take place Thursday, July 18, 2019. (Photo by Emily Michot/Miami Herald/TNS/Sipa USA)
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NEW YORK (AP) — A Federal correctional officer was arrested Friday for lying to investigators after a loaded gun was found in an inmate’s cell at a federal jail in New York City — the same troubled lockup where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in 2019. Prosecutors say Greg McKenzie, a guard at the since-shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center, used a prepaid cellphone to communicate with the inmate and the inmate’s wife prior to the gun’s discovery in March 2020, but denied doing so when federal agents interviewed him. McKenzie was scheduled to appear in court Friday in Manhattan to face charges of obstruction of justice and making false statements. They carry a combined maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.
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